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| | TRIMONTIVM |
 | | In Ptolemy's Geography the name is listed as Trimontium, the last of four towns attributed to the Selgovae tribe of the Scottish Borders region; the other three towns mentioned by Ptolemy, Carbantorigum, Uxellum and Corda, are all unidentified. |
 | | All of the legible stones recovered from the Trimontium area have been altars to the gods, and interestingly enough all of the gods mentioned are Roman, further proof perhaps that the garrison at Newstead consisted of citizen Roman legionaries. |
 | | The deities are all represented by single altars; Apollo, sun-god and patron of music, his sister Diana, goddess of the moon and hunting, the omnipotent Jupiter, king of the Roman pantheon, the ancient Italian rural god Silvanus, and lastly, the Campestres, or 'goddesses of the parade-ground. |
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